Sophocles: The Complete Plays - (Signet Classics) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Includes the full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles, with Roche's revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle and all-new translations of the remaining plays. Revised reissue.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>With new translations and a new afterword</b> <p/> The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roche's revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translations of the remaining plays.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sophocles</b> was born at Colonus, just outside Athens, in 496 BC, and lived ninety years. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles, and though not an active politician he held several public offices, both military and civil. The leader of a literary circle and friend of Herodotus, he was interested in poetic theory as well as practice, and he wrote a prose treatise <b>On the Chorus</b>. He seems to have been content to spend all his life at Athens, and is said to have refused several invitations to royal courts.<p>Sophocles first won a prize for tragic drama in 468, defeating the veteran Aeschylus. He wrote over a hundred plays for the Athenian theater, and is said to have come first in twenty-four contests. Only seven of his tragedies are now extant, these being <b>Ajax</b>, <b>Antigone</b>, <b>Oedipus the King</b>, <b>Women of Trachis</b>, <b>Electra</b>, <b>Philoctetes</b>, and the posthumous <b>Oedipus at Colonus</b>. A substantial part of <b>The Searches</b>, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the innovation of a third actor in his tragedies. He died in 406 BC.<br><b>Paul Roche</b>, a distinguished English poet and translator, is the author of <b>The Bible's Greatest Stories</b>. His other translations include <b>Euripides: Ten Plays</b> (Signet), <b>Oedipus Plays of Sophocles</b> (Meridian) and <b>The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus</b> (Meridian).</p>
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